Booth A9
The CAMP Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Focus Art Fair’s premiere presence in NYC during the Spring Art Week. Located in Booth A9, the gallery has curated works from Guang Yu Zhang, Ziesook You and Stefano Ogliari Badessi with a focus on the many layers of culture and experience and how they define not only the work, and artist but also the viewer through the vehicle of interpretation. Approaching art as a Visual text, artists Stefano Ogliari Badessi, Ziesook You and Guang Yu Zhang all structure their works to be dissected as a means to expose the similarities of human existence and experience.
Known for his adept mingling of Eastern and Western culture, Guang Yu orchestrates magical vignettes capturing this meeting point, all the while honoring his own culture. Zhang’s attention to detail in his work highlights and brings forward traditional Chinese artistic practices, reinterprets them all the while affording the viewer access for interpretation and understanding about the depth of Chinese art Culture. And the universal aspects of culture as a marker for both identity and imagination.
Ziesook You, with flowers presents an unique form of portraiture, hiding the face yet highlighting the individual. The highlighting occurs as the viewer must delve deep into the visual narrative to image the face behind the arrangement. Firmly believing that flowers bring forth happiness and harmony, Ziesook You through the layers and levels of her floral arrangement directs our gaze to the bouquet that shields the face, but also stimulates introspection as to the symbolism of flowers - deeply rooted in both fertility and rebirth.
Ogliari Badessi, brought to Shanghai for residency at the Swatch Freedom Tower dived deeply into the environment and culture embracing him, making him to want to share his experiences, thus he creates the Spherical Postcard Series. The beauty of this series lies not only in the visuals but also in the notion of a postcard, which shares experiences, confesses a certain level of missing home, but also spreads culture across continents, all the while stimulating imagination of all who handle ‘the postcard’ as it travels from one location to its destination.
Each of the exhibiting artists have been touched by the culture that either formed them, or embraced them, presenting their experiences to the viewer to ‘read,’ digest and explore. The exploration can lead down paths familiar, paths creative culminating in a sharing of culture and experience, making this vast world, just a little smaller - just a little closer.
